@Postmortal_Pop to No Stupid Questions • 2 months agoCan you scale down a firearm to make an identical looking firearm that fires a different round?message-square18arrow-up141arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squareCan you scale down a firearm to make an identical looking firearm that fires a different round?@Postmortal_Pop to No Stupid Questions • 2 months agomessage-square18file-text
Like, could you make a smaller version of a 1911 that fires 22lr instead of .45 by just scaling all the parts to the 22lr?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink46•2 months agoShort answer no, not everything scales linearly. You’d have 1/8th the powder charge in a chamber with 1/8th the volume, encased by a barrel 1/2 as thick to contain the same pressure as the full size one.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•2 months agoYup, square cube law applies here as well.
Short answer no, not everything scales linearly.
You’d have 1/8th the powder charge in a chamber with 1/8th the volume, encased by a barrel 1/2 as thick to contain the same pressure as the full size one.
Yup, square cube law applies here as well.